Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image.

Thomas Sauvin, a French artist, created a series of images called, ‘No more, No less.’ This is where he weould edit and move around parts of the image, but not add or take away anything, creating the name ‘No more, No less.’ This was his one rule with the images, ‘nothing is removed, nothing is added.’

This interests me because it gets the photographer to work with what they’ve got and see how they can manipulate an image to create a new meaning/look.

This is one of his finished images. The edits made are simple but effective, leaving the final image looking clean and not over edited or distorted. The image is in black and white which gives eddied contrast to the blacks and shadows in the image, while the wide aperture focuses on the face of the subject, both adding depth of field to the image.

My Image & Edit

Here i used the same tonal range of Thomas Sauvin by changing the original RGB image into a grayscale image. I then Cut out a triangle around the eye and moved it to a seperate layer. I then cut out another identical triangle in another part of the image, moved that triangle to a seperate layer aswel, then swapped the location of the two shapes. The layers were ordered so that the original is behind the newly edited parts of the image.

Double/Multi Exposures

What are they?

‘Double or multiple exposures are an illusion created by layering images (or portions of images) over the top of each other. This can be achieved in the camera settings, or on Adobe Photoshop by creating LAYERS and then using BLENDING OPTIONS and OPACITY CONTROL’

Example taken by Man Ray:

My Double Exposures

Here, i layered two images of the same subject over each other in Adobe Photoshop. I then cropped the images to the desired size and changed the opacity of the layers. I moved them so that the heads of the subject are aligned and the correct transparency was achieved.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is placing two images together to show contrast or similarities.

Here is one example by Henry Mullins where he compares a currant image and an old image, where the subject has a similar expression and is framed similarly:

My Juxtaposition

Here i used the same idea as the above images, where one image is recent, and another image is old, but both have a similar expression and framing:

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Sequence/Grid

Duane Michals – ‘ The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his works. Rather than serving a didactic or explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’s singular musings, which are poetic, tragic, and humorous, often all at once.’

Here is his sequence:

My Sequence

My sequence of images shows a series of 3 photos where the subject is exactly the same in all three. The camera is moving away from the subject with each photograph but the framing of the subject is the same. This creates a greater depth of field as the focal length of the lens is greater as the camera moves further away from the subject.

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A ‘multiple exposure image is a type of photograph that is created by exposing the same frame of film to light more than once. Multiple exposure images allow a photographer to superimpose one subject over another on the same frame of a photograph.

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To create these images I used Adobe Photoshop. I picked 2 images and then layered them and made them the same size and then changed the opacity of one of the layers to create the multi exposure look.